Georgetown Lake

Georgetown Lake sits at about 6,400 feet between Anaconda and Philipsburg, a reservoir of about 3,000 acres on Flint Creek. Its rich, weedy water grows rainbows and some of the biggest brook trout in Montana, and kokanee fill the open water. It is one of the most fished lakes in the state, summer and winter.

The damsel migration in June and early July is the event: nymphs swimming toward shore over the weed beds, and trout following them. Callibaetis carry the summer mornings, and leeches and scuds on a slow-sinking line work all season. The season runs from the third Saturday in May through March 31, and the south and east shoreline, including Stuart Mill Bay, opens only on July 1 to protect spawning fish. Only one brook trout may be kept, and it must be over 16 inches. In winter it is a busy ice fishery.